40 Best Dan Lok Quotes From The Influential Entrepreneur
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Dan Lok is a Chinese-Canadian business magnate.
For any entrepreneur to start their journey, it is vital that they have the right motivation and inspiration. Both motivation as well as inspiration act like oxygen in this new phase.
Dan Lok is an author, entrepreneur, business mentor, educator, and multi-millionaire. When he was 16, he started with his first job at one of the local supermarkets.
He used to get paid the minimum wage; this was the major turn-off and the first and last job for him. Despite acquiring knowledge from business school, Dan Lok went to the school of hard knocks where he learned everything about business and strategies in the market.
Dan Lok is best known as an immigrant entrepreneur who has made millions in his online businesses. He is an Asian billionaire and a keynote speaker.
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Dan Lok Motivational Quotes
If you want to get started in the real world of business, these quotes will keep you motivated and fill you with positivity.
1. "I came to Canada as a teenager with no money, no contacts, and no knowledge of English."
- Dan Lok.
2. "Your will decides your future and so your courage in oneself also be different at least from what others do."
- Dan Lok.
3. "Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions."
- Dan Lok.
4. "I want you to imagine a person that you like, respect and look up to, someone who you consider to be very successful."
- Dan Lok.
5. "If you study failure and avoid those, the chance of you succeeding becomes much higher."
- Dan Lok.
6. "Remember, people don't buy from you because they understand what you sell-they buy from you because they feel understood."
- Dan Lok.
7. "Anybody can do it if they want it bad enough."
- Dan Lok.
8. "You have never read a book like mine."
- Dan Lok.
9. "Entrepreneurs solve people's problems at a profit."
- Dan Lok.
10. "Sugar coating is meant for cereal."
- Dan Lok.
11. "Many entrepreneurs lack focus. They cannot focus on one thing. They jump from one thing to another. The greatest edge you can have is laser beam focus."
- Dan Lok.
12. "I don’t know the sure-fire way to success. But I sure as hell know the sure-fire way to failure, and that is to try to please everybody."
- Dan Lok.
Great Dan Lok Quotes
Most entrepreneurs have a motivational story behind their success. Dan Lok quotes given below speak about the challenges and the positive approach to tackle them.
13. "A limited offer has unlimited appeal."
- Dan Lok, 'Influence'.
14. "Extreme clarity leads to extreme results."
- Dan Lok.
15. "What is the one quality or action or mindset that will ensure a person truly create extraordinary success."
- Dan Lok.
16. "I wasn't social at all. I didn't have a lot of friends."
- Dan Lok.
17. "I want you to imagine what life could be like if you could be your very best in every area of your life — your relationship, your finance, your business, your career, your family, your health, your hobby, your passion."
- Dan Lok.
18. "I know that I realized there was one factor in each of those successes in every one of little successes."
- Dan Lok.
19. "I failed at 13 business before having my first success. Once you succeed, nobody cares about your failures."
- Dan Lok.
20. "You want to strive for freedom and not comfort. You don't want to do things that are comfortable. If every day you're not doing something that scares you, you're not growing."
- Dan Lok.
21. "The number one quality of a successful entrepreneur is the ability to endure pain for a long period of time."
- Dan Lok.
22. "Decide exactly what you want. What would you do for money? What would you not do for money? Where do you want to live?"
- Dan Lok.
23. "Visibility is more important than ability. You need to be known. You need people to want to hire you. Without customers you have no revenue, and no revenue means no business."
- Dan Lok.
24. "If you have no critics, you likely have no success. Anyone in the world who is making an impact will be criticized—period.
- Dan Lok.
25. "When I look in my own life, I ask myself the question: what was it that made me successful? It wasn't because of my intelligence."
- Dan Lok.
26. "The best marketers aren't the best talkers… although many of them could charm the pants right off you… they're the best listeners. They know how to hear what prospects are really saying and what they're not saying."
- Dan Lok.
27. "The key is not to internalize it. Don’t take it personally."
- Dan Lok on criticism.
28. "I am here to show you how to think differently. I am here to change the way you think about business and about making a lot of money. I am here to make you grow. I am here to challenge you. I am here to give you a dose of reality."
- Dan Lok.
29. "When I look at the deliberate success I had over the years, having a great marriage, building a number of successful companies, writing multiple best-selling books, becoming a highly paid speaker that impacts hundreds of thousands of people, and just living life on my own terms."
- Dan Lok.
30. "Can someone work 10 times harder than us? So you work eight hours a day, they work 80 hours a day. No."
- Dan Lok.
31. "I am here to tell you what you don’t want to hear, but need to hear. You might be put-off by my brutal honesty but you just have to realize that it’s 'tough love.'"
- Dan Lok.
32. “I’m just a guy with desire and ambition and goals. And I didn’t give up. I just kept on going. Anybody can do it if they want it bad enough.”
- Dan Lok.
33. "The great thing about business is you can screw it up, make mistakes, and fail many, many times. But it only takes one win to make up for all of those losses."
- Dan Lok.
34. "It's not just how much you know, it's how fast you learn. In order to compete today, you need to learn, you need to grow. You cannot stop."
- Dan Lok.
35. "You must surround yourself with mentors, not gurus."
- Dan Lok.
36. "Sometimes you break down before you break through."
-Dan Lok.
37. "Once you know who you want to become, you know what actions you need to take to get there."
- Dan Lok.
38. "Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans."
- Dan Lok.
39. “You must determine the price that you will have to pay to achieve success, and then get busy paying that price.”
- Dan Lok.
40. "Live your life as if all your dreams have come true, and then challenge your reality to catch up."
- Dan Lok.
Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly quotes for everyone to enjoy! If you liked our suggestions for Dan Lok quotes, then why not take a look at Mark Cuban quotes or Herb Kelleher quotes.
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